Staff

 Pastor Lang is a graduate of Quincy Senior High School in Quincy, Illinois.  He attended Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri; Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Illinois; Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois; California State University in Dominguez Hills, California; and Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.  

Pastor Lang is a retired pastor of the ELCA.  He is also a licensed priest with the Episcopal Diocese and often works with St. Augustine’s in Wilmette.  

He and his wife Nancy have been married for 51 years.  Their daughter Jo is a clinical psychologist. Their son Andrew teaches and is a book editor.  They have four grandchildren.

Pastor Lang has a wealth of personal and professional experience which will be extremely valuable to our congregation as we move forward in our search for a new pastor.

Paul Rupprecht, born in "Brew City", WI. B.S. in education, MMus. from Northwestern U. Post-graduate study in music composition in London at Trinity College of Music and church music at The Royal School of Church Music. Organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's, Skokie; St.-Viti Kirche, Zeven, Germany; St. Timothy's, Skokie. 30 years' grade school & high school teaching experience; now teaching at Oakton Community College. Lived in three foreign countries (14 years), visited twenty-six.